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Yes. The word stratum is a Scrabble US word. The word stratum is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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7-letter words (1 found)

STRATUM,

6-letter words (3 found)

ASTRUT,STRUMA,TUARTS,

5-letter words (27 found)

ARUMS,MARTS,MATTS,MAUTS,MURAS,MUSAR,MUTTS,RAMUS,RATUS,RUSMA,SMART,START,STRUM,STRUT,STURT,SURAT,SUTRA,SUTTA,TARTS,TATUS,TAUTS,TRAMS,TRATS,TRUST,TUART,TURMS,UMRAS,

4-letter words (46 found)

AMUS,ARMS,ARTS,ARUM,MARS,MART,MAST,MASU,MATS,MATT,MAUT,MURA,MUST,MUTS,MUTT,RAMS,RAST,RATS,RATU,RUMS,RUSA,RUST,RUTS,SAUT,SMUR,SMUT,STAR,STAT,STUM,SURA,TAMS,TARS,TART,TATS,TATU,TAUS,TAUT,TRAM,TRAT,TSAR,TUMS,TURM,TUTS,UMRA,URSA,UTAS,

3-letter words (33 found)

AMU,ARM,ARS,ART,ATS,ATT,MAR,MAS,MAT,MUS,MUT,RAM,RAS,RAT,RUM,RUT,SAM,SAR,SAT,SAU,SMA,SUM,SUR,TAM,TAR,TAS,TAT,TAU,TUM,TUT,UMS,UTA,UTS,

2-letter words (12 found)

AM,AR,AS,AT,MA,MU,ST,TA,UM,UR,US,UT,

You can make 122 words from stratum according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of stratum

stratum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin strātum (“a spread for a bed, coverlet, quilt, blanket; a pillow, bolster; a bed”), neuter singular of strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”). Doublet of estrade.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɹɑː.təm/, /ˈstɹeɪ.təm/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈstɹeɪ.təm/, [ˈstɹeɪ.ɾəm], /ˈstɹæt.əm/, [ˈstɹæɾ.əm]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈstɹaː.təm/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːtəm, -eɪtəm, -ætəm

Noun

stratum (plural stratums or strata)

  1. One of several parallel horizontal layers of material arranged one on top of another.
    Synonym: tier
  3. (geology) A layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.
    Synonyms: bed, layer
    Coordinate term: seam
  4. Any of the regions of the atmosphere, such as the stratosphere, that occur as layers.
  5. (biology) A layer of tissue.
  6. A class of society composed of people with similar social, cultural, or economic status.
  7. (ecology) A layer of vegetation, usually of similar height.
  8. (computing) The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • stratification
  • stratify
  • stratosphere

Translations

Further reading

  • stratum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “stratum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “stratum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stratum. Doublet of estrade.

Noun

stratum m (plural stratums)

  1. stratum

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch stratum, from Latin stratum. Doublet of setrat and strata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈstratʊm]
  • Hyphenation: stra‧tum

Noun

stratum (first-person possessive stratumku, second-person possessive stratummu, third-person possessive stratumnya)

  1. (geology) stratum, a layer of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout.

Related terms

Further reading

  • “stratum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From strātus, perfect passive participle of sternō (“spread”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈstraː.tum/, [ˈs̠t̪räːt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈstra.tum/, [ˈst̪räːt̪um]

Noun

strātum n (genitive strātī); second declension

  1. a bed-covering, coverlet, quilt, blanket
  2. a pillow, bolster
  3. a bed, couch
    Synonym: lectus
  4. a horse-blanket, saddle-cloth
  5. a pavement

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

Verb

strātum

  1. accusative supine of sternō

References

  • “stratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “stratum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • stratum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • stratum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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